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☆ Emily Oster says parents should be focused on raising independent children. Her kids walk alone to school and don't have social media.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Still, Oster understands that all the research in the world can't balance out the emotional and lifestyle impacts that come with pregnancy complications. AdvertisementParents should be more worried about raising independent kidsA big picture concern that parents don't spend enough time on is fostering independence, Oster said. She encourages physical independence by having her kids walk home from school, a distance of about three blocks. The school was somewhat skeptical, but when Oster explained why the kids would be walking, they acquiesced. In addition, Oster doesn't drop off items her kids forget at home, like cleats for practice or a school folder.

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☆ Tongue tie surgeries are on the rise, but experts say try other solutions first for baby's breastfeeding issues
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Google searches for "tongue tie release" have been climbing since 2004, reaching an all-time high in 2023. Oftentimes, infants are evaluated for a tongue tie after a nursing parent reports pain or other feeding difficulties. Tongue tie revisions shouldn't be the first stepIf you believe your child might have a tongue tie and need a revision, Oster recommends getting multiple opinions. AdvertisementA severe tongue tie can cause challenges beyond breastfeeding, Pellman notes, including speech problems, orthodontic issues, and trouble with the tongue sweeping through the mouth to keep teeth clean. "Ultimately, the decision of whether to proceed with a tongue tie revision should be made on a case-by-case basis, in consultation with a healthcare professional who understands your child's individual needs," he said.

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☆ Everyone is getting paid these days — except investment bankers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

It's been a tough go for investment bankers recently. As if all that wasn't bad enough for bankers, The Wall Street Journal recently reported that even lawyers are now making more money than them. It turns out the culprit, as is often the case on Wall Street, is inflation. It's getting really tough these days to make the case for getting into investment banking. That begs the question: Why bother getting into investment banking at all?

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☆ The cult of Emily Oster
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Sarah Todd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +30 min

Emily Oster is sitting in the back of a car, checking her Garmin watch as we lurch through rush-hour traffic toward the Holland Tunnel. A self-described expert in data, Oster uses her economics training to dig into studies on things like circumcision and screen time and translate them for popular consumption. There doesn't seem to be much of a gap between the way Oster presents herself in her books and newsletters and the way she conducts her life. Unsurprisingly, economics informs every aspect of the way Oster sees the world. When Oster was a toddler, her mother told a Yale colleague that Oster often talked to herself before falling asleep.

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☆ When Politics Saves Lives: a Good-News Story
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Amanda Taub | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Here is something I don’t write about very often: a situation in which unpredictable, seemingly irrational politics saved millions of the poorest and most vulnerable people on earth. The program, started by President George W. Bush, paid for antiretroviral medications for millions of H.I.V. “The conventional wisdom within health economics was that sending AIDS drugs to Africa was a waste of money,” Sandefur wrote. It wasn’t that the drugs didn’t work: Antiretroviral therapy had achieved revolutionary results in controlling H.I.V.-AIDS, and had the potential to save the lives of infected people and prevent new infections. transmission more likely, data suggested, would save more lives per dollar than treatment would.

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☆ Welcome to the Era of Very Earnest Parenting
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Caitlin Moscatello | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Another popular account is Big Little Feelings, created by two longtime friends, Kristin Gallant, 36, and Deena Margolin, 33, a licensed psychotherapist. Started just before the pandemic began, Big Little Feelings now has more than three million followers on Instagram, and the mood is more moms-in-survival-mode. Solid Starts, which helps parents safely introduce new foods and avoid picky eating, has 2.6 million followers on Instagram. Taking Cara Babies, a sleep training guide for exhausted parents, has 2.4 million followers. Busy Toddler, an account dedicated to thoughtful play, has two million followers.

☆ Now They Want a Pandemic ‘Amnesty’
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Believe it or not, American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten on Monday tacitly acknowledged that keeping schools closed during the pandemic was a mistake. Miracles happen, apparently. But she also now wants parents—especially if they’re voters next week—to forgive her and her political allies without seeking an apology or holding them accountable. Sorry, that lets them off way too easy. “I agree,” Ms. Weingarten tweeted a link to a piece in The Atlantic by Emily Oster , “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty.” The article argues that Americans should forgive experts and government leaders for their mistakes during the pandemic.

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